2:38 AM,
Jan. 12, 2014

Written by

Ted Berg
USA Today

The upcoming baseball season will be my eighth as a credentialed media member but should be my first as a member of the BBWAA. That means, assuming the current system holds, I expect to have a Hall of Fame vote in 2024 for the Cooperstown class of 2025.

Excited by that opportunity, I took a look down the road to try to guess at my first ballot. The following assumes that obvious candidates like Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera are long enshrined by then, but also that within the next decade, voters warm up to electing some players currently held out by PED associations.